Foresight &
Intelligence
Essays, research, and perspectives from senior design leaders on the future of the profession.

We live in an ever-changing world. In response, we humans continue to find ways to innovate and improve our lives. Advances in medical resea…

DesignIntelligence (DI): Welcome, Alastair MacGregor, senior vice president and national business line executive for property and buildings …

Editor’s note: The following essays were excerpted from podcasts originally published in This Is DesignIntelligence in Fall 2022, on DI-medi…

DesignIntelligence (DI): We are talking with Jennifer Stone, partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), a leading global architectural…

The relationship between architecture and security is, and has always been, a consequence of political, legal and military considerations — …

DesignIntelligence (DI): Let’s start by level-setting our discussion. Please share a little bit about your background. As the global head of…

Leading a design firm through uncertain times can be likened to writing fiction. To recall our DesignIntelligence Q3 2022 editorial theme, w…

Editor’s note: In our phone conversation to frame this quarter’s editorial theme, the author informed me of a friend’s decision to provide r…

In life, to survive and flourish, nature demands that we exhibit the ability to be resilient, to adapt to changing environments. This princi…

These days, there seems to be a bull market in bad news. Inflation is raging, politics are messy and war in the Ukraine threatens global ene…

The following essay compiles content from three recent leadership podcasts by Dave Gilmore, originally published on “This is DesignIntellige…

DesignIntelligence (DI): Congratulations on being this year’s AIA Kemper Award winner, an award given annually for significant service to th…
